Metal Assault Trailer Shows Off Characters, Multiplayer Mode

Aeria games released a new trailer and more information on upcoming 2D side-scrolling multiplayer shooter Metal Assault today, touching upon the Contra/Metal Slug-inspired game’s different modes.

Metal Assault allows you to play PvP (player vs. player), the singleplayer PvE (player vs. enemy) or the co-op PvZ (player vs. zombie). That last one is an entirely separate mode, which you can see more of here.

Metal Assault also has a quest mode, where you cooperate with other players to progress through the game’s story, which involves uncovering the mystery behind an underground military lab and the disappearance of a prominent researcher.

When it releases, Metal Assault will be a free-to-play game on PC. Before that, however, Aeria Games and developer, GNI Soft, will be hosting a closed beta sometime in the near future.

He’s just predicting when Metal Slug becomes an MMO, where eveyone on chat will say “HEAVY MACHINEGUN” every five seconds ¬_¬

Kunio_kun

All Metal Assault and no Metal Slug makes Ishaan something something…

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I really like the character designs/artwork, and I love run ‘n’ gun games >w< I can't help but feel like after playing so much Hardcorps recently, it might potentially spoil me for this opo;; I still kind of wanna try it out.

Yusaku_Matsuda70s

How is that game? Hardcorps?

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Excellent, if you’ve ever played Guilty Gear, or Blazblue, and wanna see what it’d be like if Arc System Works made a platformer, this is it xwx; I find it a delicious cross between Mega Man Zero, and Contra >w<'

http://chronotwist.deviantart.com/ JustThisOne

This looks like fun. I’m glad MMOs are trying to expand it’s genre… Which reminds me a lot of Valkyrie Sky, the shmup MMO that didn’t get the treatment that it should have.

Yusaku_Matsuda70s

I’m really digging the art style. Sprites seem alright as well.

Soma

This makes me thing Metal Slug meets Maple Story.
One of the two is awesome.